Mortgage scheme sends West Chester woman to prison

10:09 PM,
Jun. 25, 2013

Written by

Janice Morse
jmorse@enquirer.com

A 40-year-old West Chester Township woman was sentenced to 2½ years in federal prison for her role in a mortgage-fraud scheme, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Ohio said in a news release Tuesday.

Senior U.S. District Judge Herman J. Weber imposed that punishment on Sylvia Odia Thomas, and also ordered her to pay $313,021 in restitution to lenders, plus $95,422.14 to the IRS, the release said.

Thomas had previously pleaded guilty to mail fraud and filing false income tax returns in connection with her business as a mortgage broker. "She habitually falsified ...